(74) This I write in the Power and perfect Knowledge of the great God, and I understand his Will herein very well. For I live and am in him, and spring up with this Work and Labour out of his Root and Stock, and it must be so: Only take thou Heed, if thou blindest thyself, then there is no Remedy more; neither canst thou say, thou knewest not of it, therefore arise, for the Day breaks! [Or have my Being in him.]

(19) Let no one suppose, that we may attain to this true light and perfect knowledge, or life of Christ, by much questioning, or by hearsay, or by reading and study, nor yet by high skill and great learning. Yea, so long as a man taketh account of anything which is this or that, whether it be himself, or any other creature; or doeth anything, or frameth a purpose, for the sake of his own likings or desires, or opinions, or ends, he cometh not unto the life of Christ. This hath Christ Himself declared, for He saith: “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.”23 “He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after Me, is not worthy of Me.”24 And if he “hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.”25 He meaneth it thus: “He who doth not forsake and part with everything, can never know My eternal truth, nor attain unto My life.” And though this had never been declared unto us, yet the truth herself sayeth it, for it is so of a truth. But so long as a man clingeth unto the elements and fragments of this world (and above all to himself), and holdeth converse with them, and maketh great account of them, he is deceived and blinded, and perceiveth what is good no further than as it is most convenient and pleasant to himself and profitable to his own ends. These he holdeth to be the highest good and loveth above all. Thus he never cometh to the truth.

(123) But this I must needs say, that Moses has wrote very right, but the true Understanding or Meaning, out of what the Earth proceeded, remained hidden to Moses, and them that have come after him in the Letter, and the Spirit has kept it hidden to this very Time.

(95) Hearken, there belongs more than so to this; thy animated or soulish Spirit must first qualify, operate or unite with the innermost Birth or Geniture in God, and stand in the Light, that it may rightly know and understand the astral Birth or Geniture, and that it may have a free and open Gate into all the Births or Genitures, else thou wilt not be able to write a holy and true Philosophy, but as it were full of Lice and Fleas, and to wit be found a Mocker against God. [Or many evil Beasts and creeping Vermine.]